Health Care Industry to Lead in Desktop Virtualization Adoption: Imprivata

Imprivata, a provider of access-management tools, has released the results of a survey showing health care poised to take the lead in desktop virtualization adoption in the next 12 months.
For the report called “2011 Virtualization Trends in Healthcare,” researchers interviewed 477 IT managers in multiple industries, including health care and financial services. Health care had 363 respondents.

Of health care respondents, 35 percent were using desktop virtualization and
43 percent anticipate more than half of their users employing the technology in the next year. About 40 percent of respondents in financial services expect half of their users to adopt desktop virtualization in the same time frame.

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